Shipping containers could begin arriving later this year for North Greenwood’s retail and food hall project after Clearwater’s Community Development Board approved the proposed North Greenwood Container Mall on Tuesday.
The 0.35-acre development is planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Tangerine Street and would include six shipping-container buildings housing restaurants, retail spaces and an outdoor event area built around a central courtyard.
Gloria Campbell, executive director of the Clearwater Urban Leadership Coalition, said the organization expects to begin placing containers on-site by the end of the year and open the project in early 2027. Tenants have already been identified for most of the development’s 10 business spaces, which would focus mainly on food, beer, wine and wellness concepts.
Campbell said the development would serve as a small-business incubator before tenants move into larger commercial spaces…